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Dr. Joseph E. Scherger, M.D., M.P.H serves as Vice President of Primary Care at Eisenhower Medical Center, Inc. Dr. Scherger serves as Medical Director of California Programs at AmeriChoice Corporation. Dr. Scherger serves as Consulting Medical Director for Quality and Informatics at Lumetra Healthcare Solutions. Dr. Scherger's role with AmeriChoice® in San Diego is to oversee the medical management of the County Medical Services (CMS) program for San Diego County. Dr. ... Scherger is responsible for the medical policies and utilization management of up to 20,000 patients each year. He has 30 years of experience in quality of care and primary care. Prior to joining AmeriChoice®, Dr. Scherger served as the founding dean of the medical school at Florida State University. He was department chair of family medicine and associate dean for primary care at the University of California, Irvine. He has extensive experience in the redesign of primary care through the use of health information technology. He served as a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Medical Economics Company, Inc. His main focus is on the redesign of office practice using the tools of information technology and quality improvement. Dr. Scherger serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Eureka Medical, Inc. Dr. Scherger is a Home Health Care Visionary, founding Dean of the University of Florida Medical School and Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Scherger has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Clinical Instructor in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He was chosen as Family Physician of the Year by the American Academy of Family Physicians and the California Academy of Family Physicians. In 1986, he served as President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Dr. Scherger was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He received the Thomas W. Johnson Award for Family Practice Education from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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